Feed the Future Global Learning and Evidence Exchange

for Nutrition and Agriculture

Feed the Future: Born out of the high food

price crisis beginning in 2007,

and inspired by the “Green

Revolution

Built on IEHA and the GFSR

Adopted FFP framework for

Food Security (Availability,

Access, Utilization)

Announced in 2009 at G-8

Summit in L’Aquila, Italy

Part of G20+ global effort

Whole of Government

High Level Objective: Improved nutritional status esp. of women & children

Increased resilience of vulnerable

communities and households

Increased employment opportunities

in targeted value chains

Programs and policies to

reduce inequities

Improved agriculture

productivity

Expanding markets and trade

Increased private investment in

agriculture and nutrition activities

Improved access to

diverse and quality foods

Improved nutrition-

related behaviors

Improved use of maternal

and child health and nutrition services

Programs and policies to support agriculture sector

growth

Programs and policies to

support positive gains

in nutrition

Feed the Future Goal: Sustainably Reduce Global Poverty and Hunger

AVAILABILITY

ACCESS

UTILIZATION

STABILITY

Programs and policies to

increase access to markets and facilitate trade

High Level Objective: Inclusive agriculture sector growth

- Prevalence of poverty - Prevalence of underweight children

-Agriculture Sector GDP -Per capita expenditures in rural households

- Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

-Prevalence of stunted children -Prevalence of wasted children

-Prevalence of underweight women

-Gross margins per unit of land or animal of selected product

-Percent change in value of intra-regional exports of targeted commodities - Value of incremental sales (farm-level)

-Value of new private investment in ag sector or value chain

-% pub. expenditure on ag. and nutrition

- # of local firms/CSO operating sustainably

-Jobs created by investment in agricultural value chains

-Household Hunger Scale

-Dietary diversity for women and children

-Exclusive breastfeed-ing under six months

-Prevalence of maternal anemia

“Nutrition For Growth”

“Global Nutrition for Growth Compact” 2013-2020 • Reach 500 million pregnant women and young children with

effective nutrition interventions.

• Reduce the number of children under five who are stunted by

an additional 20 million

• Save the lives of 1.7 children under five

• $4.15 billion to scale up “nutrition specific” programming and

$19 billion for “nutrition sensitive” programming

• U.S. -- Whole of government investment of $1 billion in

“nutrition specific” and $9 billion in “nutrition sensitive”

programming (2012-2014)

What does it mean to us?

• USAID Nutrition

Strategy: October,

2013

• USG “Whole of

Government

Strategy: March,

2014

• M&E and Financial

reporting: FTF

Annual Report

• Learning

Framework for Actions to Achieve Optimum Fetal and Child Nutrition and Development

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FTF Learning Agenda

• Identify and examine synergies among direct

nutrition interventions and agricultural programs.

• Clearly articulate nutrition goals and interventions if

agriculture, horticulture, and food security programs

are expected to improve nutrition.

FTF Learning Agenda: Nutrition

and Dietary Quality

Key Questions:

• What have been the impacts of different approaches linking Agriculture,

Nutrition and Health on dietary diversity and nutritional status (i.e.

geographic co-location of programs, integration of interventions, and

which combinations)

• Have programs to increase farmers’ incomes resulted in improved

nutrition when not coupled with nutrition programming?

• What activities have enabled value chain investments to lead to improved

consumption of diverse diets?

• Which agriculture technology interventions have improved diets and

nutrition outcomes?

• What investments in human and institutional capacity development have

effectively generated large scale nutrition outcomes?

FTF Learning Agenda:

Nutrition and Dietary Quality

“We will drive the growth of the future

that lifts all of us up.”

– President Barack Obama, 2009

Thank You!

www.feedthefuture.gov

"In many places, people live on little

more than a dollar a day. So the

United States will join with our allies

to eradicate such extreme poverty in

the next two decades.”

- President Barack Obama, SOTU

2013